Health Law and Bioethics
Code
MM111
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Helena Pereira de Melo
Weekly hours
4.5
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The main objective of this course is to improve the students’ understanding of the most important concepts of Health Law and Bioethics in Portugal and in Europe. In order to achieve it legal texts, essays and court decisions are studied, and exercises are solved by the lecturer with the students.
Subject matter
The following themes are lectured in this course: Bioethics and Biolaw; Health Law; Medically assisted reproduction; The human embryo status; Pre-implantation diagnosis; Pre-natal diagnosis; Abortion; Surrogate motherhood; Human reproductive cloning; Stem cell research; Predictive testing and employment law; Predictive testing and insurance law; Patient’s rights; Informed consent and patient autonomy; Confidentiality and protection of medical data; dna databanks; Medical responsibility; Research on human subjects; Ethics committees; Organ donation and allotransplantation; Xenotransplantation; Advanced directives; Palliative care; Euthanasia; Future generations’ rights; The human genome as a heritage of humanity; Biotechnological patents; Nanotechnology; Tobacco consumption.
Bibliography
Testamento Vital
Rui Nunes, Helena Pereira de Melo
Almedina, Coimbra, 2011, 222 pp.
Manual de Biodireito
Helena Pereira de Melo
Almedina, Coimbra, 2008, 302 pp.
Clonagem e Direito
Helena Pereira de Melo
Serviço de Bioética e Ética Médica da Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Porto, 2007, 99 pp.
Implicações Jurídicas do Projecto do Genoma Humano: Constituirá a Discriminação Genética uma Nova Forma de Apartheid?, vol. 1
Helena Pereira de Melo
Serviço de Bioética e Ética Médica da Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Porto, 2007, 648 pp.
Artigos:
1. O Diagnóstico Pré-Natal e o Eugenismo
Helena Pereira de Melo
Bioética e Direitos da Pessoa Humana, Gustavo Pereira Leite Ribeiro e Ana Carolina Brochado Teixeira (ed.)
Editora Del Rey, Belo Horizonte, 2012, pp. 149 - 195
2. Clinical Trials in Portugal
Helena Pereira de Melo
Law, Public Health Care System and Society, Vol. 6, Brigitte E. S. Jansen (ed.)
Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 2011, pp. 43 - 127
3. The Portuguese Health Care System
Helena Pereira de Melo
Law, Public Health Care System and Society, Brigitte E. S. Jansen (ed.)
Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 2010, pp. 17 - 43
4. Living with Other People's Organs" - Organ Transplantation in Portugal
Helena Pereira de Melo
Law, Public Health Care System and Society, vol.3, Brigitte E. S. Jansen (ed.)
Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 2010, pp. 87 - 130
5. Patients Rights in Europe
Helena Pereira de Melo
Law and Ethics in Rationing Access to Care in a High-cost Global Economy 2nd Biennial Seminar in Health Law and Bioethics, Wendy K. Mariner and Paula Lobato de Faria (ed.s)
Boston University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Boston and Lisbon, 2008, pp. 185 - 199
6. Portugal: Legal System
Helena Pereira de Melo
Xenotransplatation, Ethical, Legal, Economic, Social, Cultural and Scientific Background, vol. 4, Brigitte E. S. Jansen and Jürgen W. Simon (ed.s)
Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 2008, pp. 17 - 58.
Teaching method
The teaching methods are: theoretical classes, in which the lecturer exposes the course’s contents, and practical classes in which exercises are solved.
Evaluation method
The assessment methods are: a written test (optional) and a written final exam.